LIVERMORE — At a time when the world's eyes are turned toward the unfolding arms race between the U.S. and North Korea, a group of Japanese Buddhist monks is travelling cross-country with a message of disarmament.

    "Trinity to Trident," an interfaith peace tour led by the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist monks, began July 6 near Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. The group arrived in Livermore on Tuesday, where they were greeted by the members of the anti-nuclear community organization Tri-Valley CAREs, and walked to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

    The goal of the tour, which also includes members of the Native American community and other faith traditions, is to promote non-violence and call attention to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held in 2010, organizers say.

    Kanaeda, a Japanese Buddhist monk who moved to the United States about five years ago, and who ilves in Seattle, says he believes a greater emphasis on nonproliferation is needed to achieve world peace.

    He carries with him pictures of disfigurements and radiation-linked diseases caused by the World War II atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to remind people of his mission.

    The group's 15 or so members drove to the Bay Area from New Mexico last week. Since Sunday, they have walked from Berkeley to Oakland to Alameda.

    As a nuclear weapons design site, the Livermore Lab is a "symbolically important place" along the tour, said Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs.

    The peace tour group will drive north later this week, then walk through parts of Washington state. It will end at the Trident nuclear submarine base in Bangor, Wash. on Aug. 10.

　据海外媒体报道，当世界把所有目光都放在美国和朝鲜之间的问题上时，一组日本僧人组成的团队已经在美国到处游走，宣扬裁减核武器。
　2009年7月6日，由Nipponzan Myohoji僧众发起的名为"Trinity to Trident" 的宗教间和平之旅在美国新墨西哥州的洛斯阿拉莫斯实验室开始启程，途经旧金山湾区、伯克利、奥克兰和阿拉米达并于当地时间7月21日到达了利弗莫尔，在那里，他们向反核社区组织Tri-Valley CAREs致意，并进入了劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室。
　据悉，这支15人左右的队伍中也包括一些本土美国社区和其他宗教的成员。旅程的主要目的是促进非暴力行为，将公众注意力吸引到将在2010年举办的防核扩散条约审议大会上。
　五年前搬来美国，居住在西雅图的日本Kanaeda法师表示，他相信要想达到世界和平，人们应该更加强调防核扩散问题。他还随身携带了几张因二战中美国向日本广岛和长崎投下原子弹而导致的畸形病人和核辐射导致的疾病的照片来提醒人们他的使命。
　Tri-Valley CAREs的执行理事Marylia Kelley表示，作为核武器的设计地，利弗莫尔实验室是此次旅程一个具有象征性意义的重要地方。
　这周晚些时候，和平之旅将会继续向北行进，穿越华盛顿的部分地区于8月10日到达班戈的三叉戟核潜艇基地。